Research Themes
Migrants, Minorities, and Unequal Opportunities
Contemporary socioeconomic development and globalization are creating more opportunities
for social and spatial mobility than ever before. New technological developments
and a greater openness to the international mobility of technology, capital and
peoples have led to a new international division of labor with the American occupational
and industrial structures becoming more complex, intertwined with international
forces, and dynamic. These transformations, historical and contemporary, have
not benefited everyone. Poverty persists and there are unequal opportunities
for mobility, consumption, and even life itself, for peoples defined by characteristics
that are ascribed at birth, such as race, ethnicity, gender, and nationality. The research of CSDE affiliates on these
interconnected issues is methodologically varied, international, and addresses some of the world’s most pressing problems or issues – economic
inequality, racial and ethnic discrimination, international migration and the
adjustment of immigrants, and serious health disparities.
- Identification and Measurement of Group Boundaries:
- Minority Status and Opportunity:
- Migrant and Immigrant Adaptation:
- Place and Opportunity:
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